Sydney, Australia Sunday 5th August 2018: TappnEd team wins Best User Experience (UX) award at the EOS Global Hackathon Sydney for their “Greenfix” dApp built on EOSIO blockchain.

Sam Wilson CEO accepting Best UX award on behalf of the TappnEd “Greenfix” team

Derrick Heng wondering how he’s going to get the cheque home on the bus

Gopal Gautam, Sam Wilson and Bishal Bhansali glowing a radiant blue

The Challenge

“Create a DAPP on the EOSIO platform that will empower the public to play a role in sustaining natural environments for the future”.

The sustainability theme…

Staying true to the sustainability challenge theme we decided to construct the “GreenFix” dApp from scratch (which had little to do with our core software eLearning business TappnEd), but instead focus on a blockchain sustainability solution that would allow general public to nominate and report on sustainable packaging products that were worthy of being rewarded, eg. like the recent Lego sustainable blocks made from sugarcane https://www.businessinsider.com/lego-go-eco-friendly-with-blocks-made-from-sugarcane-2018-8/?r=AU&IR=T.

The Best UX Award goes to “Greenfix”…

The front-end UX was an easy to use iOS design carefully crafted by our amazing UX expert Derrick Heng.

Nominated sustainable products would receive EOS tokens which could be redeemed or donated to their favourite companies for investment in the adoption of sustainable practices or allocated towards environmental courses company employees could take.

The usability flow chart constructed by Derrick Heng was the clincher

The back-end built on the EOSIO platform, mongoDB and used smart contract generation via C++, was built by the powerful team of Bishal Bhansali and Gopal Gautam, which allowed us to write to the EOS block chain incorporating identity verification, generation of keys and token transfers between user accounts.

Check out the dApp demo video link to Youtube

“Greenfix” dApp demo video on Youtube

The TappnEd team worked tirelessly over the weekend from the Saturday morning until the Sunday afternoon to conceptualize, plan, design, construct, code, prototype, pitch and deliver the GreenFix dApp from scratch. Not much sleep was had by the team who were up until the early hours of Sunday morning smashing away at code and designs in a mad rush to submit by the 1pm Sunday deadline.

The giveaways were truly excellent in high quality “Swag” which only further demonstrated the EOSIO commitment to looking after its community with high quality tools, great events and fantastic prizes. They really didn’t skimp on anything including the event venue (International Convention Centre at Darling Harbour), food, booze, staff and top quality brands in the swag.

The Goodies…

The “swag” was a Moleskine vertical device bag and inside was a H2Go double wall vacuum thermal bottle thermos, Patagonia sweater jacket, Morphie Encore Plus USB battery pack, Moleskine journal, a Classics peaked cap and even a toiletries bag with toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, earplugs and eye mask for those hackers who wanted to get a bit of shut-eye in the Nap room! Talk about thinking ahead… EOSIO and AngelHack really put a lot of effort into this event… All in all the prizes would have easily cost $AUD500… and we got it for the cheap developer ticket price of $10 each and a couple of days sleeplessness – bargain!

Some great high quality brands in the Swag included Patagonia jackets, Moleskine bags and Mophi USB battery chargers.

EOSIO tech, mentors and the event…

In terms of the event it was great to get to meet many of the key people at block.one and EOSIO who helped with business and technical with mentoring. Being able to directly access the extensive human and technical resources of EOSIO in a limited timeframe project was incredibly helpful since we were there to assess the EOSIO tech solution for our eLearning business and to see what these EOS/block.one people were like.

We were amazed at the professionalism, great community spirit, and well organised event which look like being hallmarks of any future events and part of the EOSIO psyche. Nothing was overlooked as being minor by the great event staff from AngelHack lead by the irrepressible Brian Collins who kept the action ticking over and deadlines nailed.

Judges and mentors were all very knowledgeable, helpful and skilled, and were always ready to lend a helping hand and use as a sounding board.

Prizemoney…

A key part of the event was the $USD 145,000 prizemoney from Block.on’s EOS VC unit who also announced their “Hack. Pitch. Launch” $USD1million seed funding initiative. The program will allow teams from the EOS Global Hackathon events to pitch their DAPPs to EOS VC for the opportunity to receive an investment of US$50,000 to launch their idea. Five teams from each of the four hackathon events will receive seed funding.

Out of the event we managed to take away a much better understanding of the EOSIO platform, their commitment to the community both technically and financially, and the longevity of the EOSIO platform as a viable blockchain solution for developers and business people alike wanting to disrupt the status quo.

Special thanks to…

Thanks to all the judges, mentors, block.one/EOSIO and AngelHack staff for making it a great event. Special thanks to Brodie who was great at helping us with product planning, Jeffrey for listening to our pitch half a dozen times, Julien Heller, Jay Chang, Chris Allnut, John MacMenamin, Bill Woodward and Thom Hallgren..

“GreenFix” acceptance award for Best UX by Sam Wilson CEO on behalf of the TappnEd team

The Sydney event was the second in a series of five taking place around the world this year, with a total of US$1.5 million in prizes to be awarded by EOS VC. The first event in the global series was hosted in Hong Kong in June and drew more than 350 entrants from 17 countries.

Each hackathon event features a unique challenge for developers to “hack” the challenge with the goal of designing blockchain applications (DAPPs) with real-world utility using EOSIO code.

Top three prize winners from each of the four hackathons will compete in a Grand Finale Pitch Competition event in December.

As part of our Educator Highlight Series we have our resident Search Engine Marketing (SEM) expert and trainer Olha Andriichuk giving us an insight into “Why you need to know about SEM” in the following article. Part I of the Search Engine Marketing course also can can be found here https://platform.tappned.com/course/138

…Firstly, let’s answer the first question – “What is SEM?”.
SEM stands for search engine marketing. In simple words, it is a complex set of tools and methods of website promotion through paid ads at search engines.
This term also used as an umbrella term to incorporate both paid search activities and SEO (search engine optimization). These days SEM is an important internet marketing tool for generating sales and receiving conversions of various types for a large number of businesses.

And we have a list of 3 most important reasons why do you need to learn more about SEM in coming 2018 to be successful:

1. E-commerce is on the rise today.

2017 is exceptional, as this is the first year that online purchases will exceed in-store sales. This year shoppers plan to spend 51% of their holiday budget online, compared to 42% in-stores, according to Deloitte’s. Search engine marketing skills will help you be up-to-date in this growing online market, whether you are an entrepreneur or an average person with eager to knowledge.

When it comes to web dimension there is one vital rule: traffic is good, quality traffic is better! A wonderful thing about SEM is that people are already searching for a product or service that you offer using specific keywords when they can see the ad. The ads are targeted and you will only be charged when the audience clicks on your ads. That makes paid search such a flexible and efficient tool for boosting sales.
With increasing importance of e-commerce (it is growing in average on 23% year-over-year), there are 46% of small businesses that do not have a website. That leaves quite a lot of place for new projects to rise. With knowledge of SEM, you can win a large room for your business on the World Wide Web while it’s still reachable.

3. You can go global.

One more advantage of SEM skills is that it’s portable and global. If you have that knowledge you can apply it to the variety of projects. Industry and size play less part once you have researched the market properly. More important is to know exactly what are you promoting and who are your target audience. And all your work can be done online. It sounds great, doesn’t it?

Are these reasons convinced you? If the answer is “No”, there is one more reason that we have prepared as a dessert: you can learn SEM online on the TappnEd platform!

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Now even the smallest RTOs can use the TappnEd interactive video training LMS to enrol students and collect student specific data for recording and verification.

The TappnEd enrolment form supports standard enrolment data collection including Unique Student Identifier (USI); or a new tab/link to allow the student to apply for one; and also education information, individual needs, country of birth and all the other information required for data reporting obligations for NCVER https://www.usi.gov.au/training-organisations/training-organisation-requirements .

TappnEd does not provide direct access to the USI Registry as at March 2017, however it does conduct a USI validation check when a student enters their USI. RTOs don’t have to upload their AusKey information to TappnEd so setting up your account and monetising interactive video course content is easy and quick.

If the student gets their USI incorrect then an error message appears allowing them time to double check the number and re-enter.

TappnEd supports standard assessment based learning in a formalized and mobile friendly interface. If students get an answer incorrect they have additional chances if that option is selected, to answer the question until they get it correct – perfect for running accredited courses.

Because now more than 50% of video gets consumed on mobile devices TappnEd gives training organisations the opportunity to sell more of their courses online and deployed to mobile devices – a key competitive and revenue advantage.

If you have your courses on a PowerPoint its easy to create a video course – narrate and export as an MP4 video file using the Microsoft PowerPoint Narration and Export As function.

Video is now becoming so common place to use as a teaching tool that if you’re not using it you are at a perceived disadvantage – but there’s a disconnect with harnessing the full power of HTML5 video and the implementation of effective training and assessing techniques.

How do you embed interactive questions and answers during the video to validate learners knowledge and then have that available on a mobile device?

Sure, Flash used to be able to do this on a desktop but failed miserably when it came to any mobile device. Now we have HTML5 video and all the neat technology associated with it but organisationas still struggle to put this in a mobile format.

Enter TappnEd – interactive video learning for mobile.

This course shows you how to get started using TappnEd’s interactive video features and then deploy that course to any device. It works especially well on smart phones in both landscape and portrait modes as it was designed specifically with the small screen of smart phones in mind.

Also learn how to monetize your mp4 video course by setting a price and selling it through the payment gateway. You can also share your course via social media or email and get your followers to buy and participate in that course.

Whilst TappnEd is in Beta we are looking for both Educators and Learners alike to engage with our system, see how they like the format and user interface, and make suggestions or comments.

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